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What is Digital Signing

Chapter 105
Encyclopedia of Multimedia Technology and Networking, Second Edition
Procedure that creates a digital signature of data. The digital signature is used to prove data integrity, nonrepudiation, and users authentication.
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Internet and E-Business Security
Violeta Tomaševic (Mihajlo Pupin Institute, Serbia), Goran Pantelic (Network Security Technologies – NetSeT, Serbia), and Slobodan Bojanic (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain)
Copyright: © 2009 |Pages: 6
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-014-1.ch105
Abstract
Originally developed for research and education purposes as Arpanet in 1970s, the Internet has become a worldwide network that offers numerous services to the immense community of users. An everyday progress of the network technology brings also new security risks regarding a lot of sensitive data transferred over the network, especially in banking, commercial, and medical applications. Therefore the Internet security could be in general defined as a set of measures that should prevent vulnerabilities and misuse of data transmitted and used through the network.
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